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Talks by W3C Speakers (Upcoming)

Many in the W3C community — including staff, chairs, and Member
representatives — present W3C work at conferences and other events.
Below you will find a list some of the talks. All material is copyright of the author, except
where otherwise noted.

This special event is dedicated to standards in speech and multimodal technology. Three distinguished panelists representing different standardization bodies will be discussing a variety of topics concerning standardization activities with the audience. Topics include: •Goals of standardization •(Dis)Advantages of standardization •How do different standardization bodies address these goals? What are their pros and cons? •What use cases are especially interesting to the Interspeech community? •What existing standards should the Interspeech community know about? •What new standards are needed to support use cases of interest to the Interspeech community? What aspects are missing in standardization, how should they be handled? •How can one get engaged in standardization activities? •What different levels of standards are there (note, working draft, recommendation, etc.)? •What is a typical timeline to develop a standard? •Types of standards publishers (informal standards based on industry/research consortia vs. formal standards bodies; “open specifications” published by a single vendor) •Best practices vs. standards